Peculiar Pixels is set to launch its sandbox sports party game, BOTSU: Ridiculous Robots, on Steam Early Access this summer. This whimsical game aims to elevate the ragdoll physics genre with innovative agility, zany power-ups, rocket boosters, and vibrant voxel aesthetics.
In BOTSU: Ridiculous Robots, you can engage in a variety of silly sandbox sports, including Box-Ball, Sumo Survival, and Stockpile. The game supports both online and split-screen play, allowing you to wrestle your way to victory in endless unique matches. Winning matches unlocks outfits, enabling you to flaunt your skills in style. Check out the Early Access release trailer below:
The game’s chaotic sandbox environment is the brainchild of solo indie developer Oscar, who has crafted every aspect of BOTSU, from art and design to netcode, music, and even fonts. The attention to detail and passion poured into BOTSU is evident in its diverse and engaging gameplay.
BOTSU features endless unique matches with three game modes, various arenas, multiple gadgets, rocket boosters, gravity modifiers, and heaps of ragdoll physics, ensuring no two matches are the same. You can compete in sandbox sports like BoxBall, where the goal is to score points, Sumo Survival, where the objective is to avoid falling into lava and be the last one standing, and Stockpile, where teams collect and steal boxes from each other.
The game supports 4-player split-screen and online multiplayer matches with up to 8 you (4v4). Between matches, you can hang out with friends in the sandbox social space. The robots in BOTSU aren’t sluggish ragdolls but acrobatic athletes capable of sprinting, jumping, flipping, climbing, breakdancing, flying, and breaking the sound barrier with rocket boosters.
The physics-based fighting system combines acrobatics with combat, allowing you to perform triple-flip kicks or mid-air wrestling while flying upside-down. Customization is also a key feature, with you able to level up and show off your unique outfits by mixing and matching different heads, bodies, arms, legs, and feet.
Gadgets in BOTSU serve as silly superpowers, including grappling hooks, balloons, sticky bombs, and impulse waves that can interact with you, objects, or the environment in creative ways. The Theatre Replay Mode captures every humorous ragdoll moment and epic victory, allowing you to replay and analyze their matches in slow motion.
Currently, you can get a taste of the chaos with the BOTSU demo, available now on Steam. The demo offers online and split-screen multiplayer, various game modes, arenas, and unlockable outfits, providing an early glimpse into this sandbox madness. BOTSU will debut in Early Access at £15.99 with a launch discount of 15%, reducing the price to £13.59. The price may increase when it transitions to full release.
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